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We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not.

Rafael Nadal

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Rafael Nadal
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: June 3
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Most important thing, I am not a player who win the serves because I serve aces or free points, no. When I winning a lot of serves is because I am playing well from the baseline. That's why.
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I am going to fight for important things.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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I don't expect never an easy match. I always expect difficult matches.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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Seriously, I am not a person that I think much about what happened or what didn't happen or what could happen. I happy about the things that happened to me. I'm a lucky person, for sure, for all the things that happened to me during my life.
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What distinguishes tennis is respect for one's opponent, one's conduct on the court.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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New York is a special place it's a city that I love.
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I am No. 8 in the world. I am not No. 100.
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Some people may learn something from the way I play tennis. But there are also players who are better than me in certain techniques.
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Don't think about being the number one in the world, try instead to get through today's program as well as you can. Then we will see whether one day you'll end up as number one or number 100.
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I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.
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If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.
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Two weeks ago, I was in a fantastic situation, winning at Roland Garros. Now, losing in the first round, it's tough. The tour continues. Life continues. This is a sport of victories, not a sport of losses. Nobody remembers the losses. I don't want to remember the loss.
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When one player is better than you, at this moment, the only thing you can do is work, try to find solutions and try to wait a little bit for your time. I'm going to wait and I'm going to try a sixth time. And if the sixth doesn't happen, a seventh. It's going to be like this. That's the spirit of sport.
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